Album Reviews

POSTED: March 30, 2004

London Sunday Times

The former American pop idol should soon be winning over those countless listeners who have been converted to the joys of jazz by Diana Krall. Stigers – a protégé of the pianist Gene Harris back in his youth – puts an extraordinarily accomplished spin on material as unlikely as Merle Haggard’s Crazy Moon and the Beatles’ I Feel Fine.

POSTED: March 30, 2001

UK Guardian

“Curtis Stigers represents – as Diana Krall does – a carefully manicuredncherishing of a long-gone musical past. Yet, like Krall, Stigers is a musician of taste and intelligence whose instrumental skills have informed his singing. This disc is a mixture of old Broadway standards and newer pieces such as Randy Newman’s It’s So Hard Living Without You. It is inevitably a little cheesy at times, but the singer has a laconically conversational manner, like a blend of Nat King Cole and Mose Allison without the irony, and his bar-fly voice sounds charismatically a lot older than he is. A fine group, with pianist Larry Goldings and the sonorous bass playing of John Clayton (who delivers a sublime intro to My Foolish Heart) making this an urbane and skilful operation.”

POSTED: March 30, 2001

London Times

“Secret Heart (Concord) will do the singer’s musical cred no harm with an agreeable trawl through the American songbook (Henry Mancini, Cole Porter). There’s cheese, yes, but charm too, and mingled in are well-chosen more modern songs from Ron Sexsmith and Steve Earle plus a fine take on Randy Newman’s poignant It’s So Hard Living Without You.”

POSTED: March 30, 2001

Sunday Times/Culture

“Secret Heart proves every bit as convincing as last year’s release, Baby Plays Around. Stigers swoops into lyrics, and has the confidence to mix Arlen and Cole Porter with a tasteful sprinkling of contemporary songs, headed by Ron Sexsmith’s title number and Steve Earle’s “Hometown Blues.”

Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times

One More for the Road

The new album brings two worlds together—old-school pop and big band jazz—with Stigers’ own version of the Frank Sinatra/Count Basie Orchestra marriage that originated 50 years ago at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and resulted in Sinatra at the Sands.

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Songs of Anarchy

Music from the hit TV show Sons of Anarchy featuring Curtis Stigers and the Forest Rangers.